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There’s another blue planet close by, let’s name it!

Hubble finds another blue planet! It needs a name — if we keep with the mythological gods and goddesses and demons and whatnot convention, we’re gonna run out of deities awful quick. There is however a one big complication with moving there, beyond it’s 63 light-year distance:

Earlier observations have reported evidence for scattering of blue light on the planet. The latest Hubble observation confirms the evidence. If seen directly, this planet would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of Earth’s color as seen from space. That is where the comparison ends.

On this turbulent alien world, the daytime temperature is nearly 2000° Fahrenheit (1100° Celsius), and it possibly rains glass — sideways — in howling, 4,500 mph (7,250 km/h) winds. The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean as it does on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles. Silicates condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red light.

I hereby nominate the name Blueglass for this world. What do you think? Got something better?

I suggest the name Bristol, as in the folks who are famous for blown blue glass.

I also suggest that, assuming humanity, or its replacement, lives so long, we will be using this planet to remove icky stuff from the exterior of our spacecraft. Yes, you could use pretty much any star, but Bristol leaves behind a very pretty, and non-stick, coating of cobalt blue glass.